PM Lee urges more babies in Year of Rabbit

[JonC]

:lol:


That's a good one.

[verykiasu2010]

印度67岁韦小宝　39个妻94个子女


查纳御妻有术，39个妻子相处融洽，但他仍不满足，还想娶美国辣妹。（图／互联网）
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（新德里讯）全世界最大的家庭应该非他莫属了！一家之主不易当，印度人查纳更是一位超级一家之主。妻子，他有39个；子女，有94个；媳妇，14个；孙儿女，33个。一个家庭，已有181口，号称是全球最大家庭。但印度韦小宝仍不满足，还想娶美国辣妹。

这位67岁超级齐人，最高记录是一年内娶10个妻子，第39奶去年才入门。妻子多却没争风吃醋，她们全都乖乖听69岁大婆的话，否则一家大乱，须知单是做晚饭已是很大工程，一餐杀鸡30只、煮马铃薯60公斤、烧白饭100公斤。

超级家庭都住在印度东北部米佐拉姆一幢四层高大宅中。大宅有房间100个，但除了查纳独占一房，其他房间都如宿舍般，全无私隐。

http://news.omy.sg/News/World%2BNews/Story/OMYStory201102211455-223880.html

[janet88]

Pen88n:

janet_lee88:

[quote=\"IJJ\"]
To include the price tags for these, education in Singapore cannot be cheap or even...free.

The 'Teach Less Learn More' motto...is bulls!@# to me. Yes, the teachers teach less, then the poor students have to find other sources to learn more to make up.

I have this feeling that it is somehow similar to our free-to-air tv programs...if you do not subscribe to cable tv, then you will have to put up with the same old stuff repeated over and over again.

\"Teach Less Learn More\" = School Teach Less, Parents have to pay to send Kids to Tuition to Learn More! My frens have been all telling me that......[/quote]CORRECT...teachers teach what they have to...if you want child to learn more and score higher marks, PAY money to LEARN MORE from enrichment centres.

[dramamama70]

janet_lee88:

CORRECT...teachers teach what they have to...if you want child to learn more and score higher marks, PAY money to LEARN MORE from enrichment centres.

Hard truth, indeed.

[Chenonceau]

dramamama70:

janet_lee88:

CORRECT...teachers teach what they have to...if you want child to learn more and score higher marks, PAY money to LEARN MORE from enrichment centres.

Hard truth, indeed.

The strangest thing is that the content in the TEXTBOOKS form the lower boundary necessary to pass exams. You follow only the content in the textbooks, you will never ace the exams. To ace the exams, you NEED the enrichment. This then should not be called enrichment anymore. Should be called education. This is patently not right.

http://petunialee.blogspot.com/2011/02/of-what-use-textbook.html

[janet88]

Chenonceau:

dramamama70:

[quote=\"janet_lee88\"]
CORRECT...teachers teach what they have to...if you want child to learn more and score higher marks, PAY money to LEARN MORE from enrichment centres.

Hard truth, indeed.

The strangest thing is that the content in the TEXTBOOKS form the lower boundary necessary to pass exams. You follow only the content in the textbooks, you will never ace the exams. To ace the exams, you NEED the enrichment. This then should not be called enrichment anymore. Should be called education. This is patently not right.

http://petunialee.blogspot.com/2011/02/of-what-use-textbook.html[/quote]With CA round the corner, I've been kept busy every parent revising with my son. It's definitely insufficient to ace exams with the pathetic textbooks. Our education system doesn't provide kids with helpful and efficient reference to ace.

[Chenonceau]

janet_lee88:

Chenonceau:

[quote=\"dramamama70\"]
Hard truth, indeed.

The strangest thing is that the content in the TEXTBOOKS form the lower boundary necessary to pass exams. You follow only the content in the textbooks, you will never ace the exams. To ace the exams, you NEED the enrichment. This then should not be called enrichment anymore. Should be called education. This is patently not right.

http://petunialee.blogspot.com/2011/02/of-what-use-textbook.html

With CA round the corner, I've been kept busy every parent revising with my son. It's definitely insufficient to ace exams with the pathetic textbooks. Our education system doesn't provide kids with helpful and efficient reference to ace.[/quote]The thing is... you and I are educated mothers with time to spend with kids. What about mothers too busy and not as educated? How many kids with high IQ fall by the wayside because they dunno how to source for references... and can't enrich themselves? The textbook is what they have. They work hard and only pass. So demoralizing!! Actually, I am not sure whether if you meet the level of the textbook, you will even pass!

[dramamama70]

Chenonceau:

The thing is... you and I are educated mothers with time to spend with kids. What about mothers too busy and not as educated? How many kids with high IQ fall by the wayside because they dunno how to source for references... and can't enrich themselves? The textbook is what they have. They work hard and only pass. So demoralizing!! Actually, I am not sure whether if you meet the level of the textbook, you will even pass!

So right. I used to volunteer at an after-school center targeted for underprivileged kids - they mostly have parents who were either in jail, rehab or the kids are under someone else's care. And most time, their caregiver are too busy working to make ends meet.

I was there to supposedly read to the kids but I end up helping them with homework instead. I can tell you the kids struggled just to complete their homework. There was no enrichment or additional assessment work made available - due to either lack of time, funds, or even interest from the kids. Very sad, really. These are the ones who will most likely fall by the wayside because as the standards and expectations are raised, these kids will fall even further away.

[tisha]

dramamama70:

Chenonceau:

The thing is... you and I are educated mothers with time to spend with kids. What about mothers too busy and not as educated? How many kids with high IQ fall by the wayside because they dunno how to source for references... and can't enrich themselves? The textbook is what they have. They work hard and only pass. So demoralizing!! Actually, I am not sure whether if you meet the level of the textbook, you will even pass!

So right. I used to volunteer at an after-school center targeted for underprivileged kids - they mostly have parents who were either in jail, rehab or the kids are under someone else's care. And most time, their caregiver are too busy working to make ends meet.

I was there to supposedly read to the kids but I end up helping them with homework instead. I can tell you the kids struggled just to complete their homework. There was no enrichment or additional assessment work made available - due to either lack of time, funds, or even interest from the kids. Very sad, really. These are the ones who will most likely fall by the wayside because as the standards and expectations are raised, these kids will fall even further away.

dramamama70,
You have pm.

[janet88]

I had a BAD dream last night

I dreamt that I was expecting #3 and gynae told me, 'Congrats'...asked the gynae to check again.
Told hubby this morning about it...no way am I going to agree to have #3, even if govt is giving $50K. The torture of waking up nights, porridge and jabs are too much.